Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 1:37 PM CDT for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1992, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Autauga County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMGM 031838 SVRMGM ALC001-031945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 137 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...AUTAUGA COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH CENTRAL AUTAUGA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HErAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:08 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
ALZ013-015-031915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 108 PM CDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 500 PM... THE COUNTIES OF WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE AND CONECUH IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ARE UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 500 PM. WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT 100 PM INDICATED NO RAINFALL IN ANY OF THESE COUNTIES AS YET...HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST ACROSS THE STATE LINE IN MISSISSIPPI AND WILL MOVE TOWARD WASHINGTON AND CLARKE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY IN SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT. RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Macon | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Bullock | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 64 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.